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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LaunchDarkly

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ALaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

    $12

    per month

    Ansible

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    Pricing
    LaunchDarklyAnsible
    Editions & Modules
    Foundation
    $12
    per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Guardian
    Custom
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LaunchDarklyAnsible
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    LaunchDarklyAnsible
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    Red Hat
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    265 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    210 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    263 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    166 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    201 Answers
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    User Ratings
    LaunchDarklyAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    8.8
    (292 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    8.3
    (184 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (26 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    LaunchDarklyAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LaunchDarkly
    If a new feature should be added but unsure of how it will actually work or how users will accept the new enhancement or change, this tool allows you test and measure initial results. This saves so much time and energy knowing the results before it is deployed and might have low user adoption or acceptance.
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    Red Hat
    I think it's the best defacto orchestrator for automation because it's so easy to integrate in other tools to it (dynatrace, cyberark, terraform, etc). It is a lot for a new or smaller team to use so I wouldn't recommend it to a new team using Ansible, in that case using Ansible navigator is a better start to understanding playbooks/inventories before diving into the complexity of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. EDA also takes a lot of connectivity between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and target systems to get working which can be difficult in very locked down envs unless you have approval from many other teams like networking and security.
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    Pros
    LaunchDarkly
    • A/B or Multi Variant Testing as a methodology to gather insight from customer usage. Experimentation as a feature within LaunchDarkly offers information around the success of one variant over another and whether the experiment has reached statistical significance.
    • Being able to decouple deployment of code from the release of a feature is hugely valuable.
    • Development teams are empowered to manage features within their production applications for reliability or testing purposes.
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    Red Hat
    • Standardize controls and visibility for automation.
    • Provide RBAC and Vault for improved automation security and support.
    • Job Scheduling is much more effective than Cron or other home-grown solutions.
    • The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform API is one of the best features as it makes automation accessible from any other platform.
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    Cons
    LaunchDarkly
    • Limited number of users on cheaper plans that is limiting our ability to audit log who is making changes.
    • Some of our engineers are confused between flags and segments and have set up items incorrectly.
    • Better documented support for React with Typescript.
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    Red Hat
    • Ansible is still not truly declarative like Terraform.
    • Simple automation is fine, but creating complex, scalable automation scripts is very difficult to learn.
    • For a higher number of nodes, Ansible consumes a lot of resources. It needs the paid version of AAP, which requires a cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LaunchDarkly
    It fits out business case
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    Red Hat
    We are extremely happy with the use of AAP. It's better than expected, There is almost no limit when thinking of automation. The only problem is that the day to day is consuming a big part of our time. Patching and checking vulnerabilities are virtually killing us. But we can only improve with AAP.
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    Usability
    LaunchDarkly
    It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.
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    Red Hat
    Everything has room for improvement, but Ansible is the best tool out there for what it does and what it can do. There are plenty of features and capabilities that can be added, but it's just a matter of time before it happens.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LaunchDarkly
    No issue with availability at all
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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    LaunchDarkly
    From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.
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    Red Hat
    Great in almost every way compared to any other configuration management software. The only thing I wish for is python3 support. Other than that, YAML is much improved compared to the Ruby of Chef. The agentless nature is incredibly convenient for managing systems quickly, and if a member of your term has no terminal experience whatsoever they can still use the UI.
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    Support Rating
    LaunchDarkly
    The overall support is very responsive
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    Red Hat
    There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    LaunchDarkly
    Yes I do.
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    Red Hat
    I spoke on this topic today!
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    Alternatives Considered
    LaunchDarkly
    Have used a custom feature flag application created inhouse. All the basic functionality was same as the ones that LaunchDarkly provides. But as time progressed, it required more and more tracking capabilities like which user has turned on/off a feature flag, what are the statuses of different feature flags that are being used across the application etc., So, all and all maintenance of such tracking has become cumbersome.
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    Red Hat
    AAP compares favorably with Terraform and Power Automate. I don't have much experience with Terraform, but I find AAP and Ansible easier to use as well as having more capabilities. Power Platform is also an excellent automation tool that is user friendly but I feel that Ansible has more compatibility with a variety of technologies.
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    Scalability
    LaunchDarkly
    The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    LaunchDarkly
    • Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
    • Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
    • Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.
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    Red Hat
    • First, it keeps our entire server infrastructure aligned with our standards and reduces the time and effort needed to maintain our systems.
    • Automate routine IT tasks to save time, reduce errors, and ensure every server is configured and updated consistently.
    • Tasks that used to take our teams weeks to complete manually now run automatically and reliably, with full visibility, making our infrastructure management more effective and our compliance tracking much easier.
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    ScreenShots

    LaunchDarkly Screenshots

    Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.Screenshot of how LaunchDarkly helps developers compare agent iterations, track key metrics like acceptance, accuracy, latency, and token usage, and safely push the best-performing variation live.Screenshot of the interface used to test prompts side by side, switch between providers like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, and add custom models or manage API keys.Screenshot of adaptive triggers, which let developers automatically respond to AI performance changes by setting thresholds for metrics like hallucination rate and taking actions such as switching to a stronger model or changing providers.